Have you ever heard a song so good you wished you could eat it?
Maybe you’ve pondered that before, maybe you haven’t, but regardless, consider your questions answered because there now exists a website that turns music into munchies. Welcome to 2014.
Introducing Beatballs: a bizarre new service that just made every hungry muso-foodie’s dream a reality.
Created by a team of 54 media students in Stockholm, Sweden (where else), Beatballs uses a very scientific* piece of coding that translates music into different recipes for meatballs that you can – you guessed it – eat.
You’re probably thinking it sounds like utter madness – so what’s the method behind it?
“Through a combination of programming, design, and just the right amount of absurdity, we have developed a code that can convert music into flavors,” they explain.
“Our taste experts behind Beatballs analyzed how various music attributes can be expressed through tastes, taking into consideration the social, cultural, and historical associations of both food and music. Each song’s unique blend of tempo, cadence, mood, and key, among other elements, defines the ingredients for a meatball that tastes like the song.”
Is all this talk making you hungry, but not making much sense?
Take Pharrell’s ubiquitous 2k14 hit ‘Happy’ for example, illustrated by typically-Swedish infographic.
The recipe generator takes cues from the song’s tempo, mood, key, which are paired with different ingredients. In this case, apparently the ‘Happy’ meatball features lots of lemon zest and strawberry, with dashes of curry and garlic. Very… Delicious.
You can have a go at making your own meatball recipes using their song generator which has thousands of titles to order up, but here are a couple of our favourites:
The Tame Impala Meatball Munchie
The Kanye West Gold Digger
Surprisingly doesn’t include any fish.
*As in, not very.
